China

Source: Department of State, Central
Files, 793.5-MSP/1-1261. Confidential; Presidential Handling.
Drafted by Deputy Director of the Office of Chinese Affairs LaRue R.
Lutkins; cleared by Assistant Staff Secretary to the President
Colonel John S.D. Eisenhower,
Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs
John M. Steeves, and
Under Secretary for Political Affairs Livingston T. Merchant; and
approved by Raymond L. Perkins of the Executive
Secretariat.

Source: Department of State, Central
Files 793.551/2-2261. Top Secret; Niact; Eyes Only. Drafted by
Rusk and approved by
Parsons. According to a
memorandum of February 21 from Director of the Department of State
Executive Secretariat Walter J. Stoessel, Jr., to Ralph A. Dungan of
the White House staff, this telegram was sent as a result of a
discussion that morning between Rusk and Kennedy. At Rusk’s suggestion, Stoessel attached a February 20
memorandum from Rusk to
Kennedy, enclosing a
paper entitled “United States Efforts To Effect Cessation of
Government of Republic of China’s Support of Chinese Irregulars in
Burma-Laos Border Area.” (Kennedy Library, National Security Files, Countries
Series, China)

Source: Department of State, Presidential Memoranda of
Conversation: Lot 66 D 149. Secret; Limit Distribution. Drafted by
Parsons and approved by S
and by the White House on March 27. The meeting was held at the
White House. The source text records only the discussion of China. A
memorandum of the entire conversation is filed with a covering
memorandum of March 2 from Stoessel to Dungan. (Ibid., Central
Files, 033.4311/3-261)

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 793.00/3-361. Secret.
Drafted by Parsons and
approved in the White House on March 27. The meeting was held at the
White House. A memorandum of conversation between Prime Minister
Holyoake and Secretary Rusk is
ibid.

Source: Department of State, Central
Files, 611.93/3-461. Confidential; Limit Distribution. Drafted by
Holdridge, except
paragraph 6, which was drafted by Robert G. Sturgill of the
Disarmament Administration; cleared by Parsons and cleared in draft in the Bureau of
Security and Consular Affairs, the Bureau of Public Affairs, the
Legal Adviser’s Office, the Disarmament Administration, and the
Department of Defense; approved for transmission and signed by
Rusk. A memorandum of
March 2 from Parsons to
Rusk enclosing the draft
telegram for his approval states that it was drafted in accordance
with Rusk’s oral comments to
Parsons on his February
19 memorandum (Document 4).

Source:
Department of State, S/P Files: Lot
67 D 548, China, 1959-1961. Secret. It is not clear whether the
memorandum was sent to Rusk.
The source text is an unsigned copy. A handwritten note dated March
10 reads: “Discussed with IO/FE/L. IO
and FE to prepare
papers.”

Source: Department of State, Secretary’s Memoranda of
Conversation: Lot 65 D 330. Secret; Limit Distribution. Drafted by
Swihart and approved in U on March 31. The time of the meeting is
from the Secretary’s Appointment Book. (Johnson
Library) A U.S.-British agreed minute of this conversation is in
Department of State, Conference Files: Lot 65 D 366, CF
1832.

Source: Washington National Records Center, RG 330, OSD Files: FRC 65 A 3464, 091 China. Secret. Also sent to Deputy
Secretary of Defense Roswell L.
Gilpatric, and copies were sent to Lemnitzer and Nitze.

Source: Department of State, INR/EAP Files: Lot 90 D
110. Secret. According to a note on the cover sheet, the Central
Intelligence Agency and the intelligence organizations of the
Departments of State, the Army, the Navy, the Air Force, the Joint
Staff, and the National Security Agency participated in the
preparation of this estimate. All members of the USIB concurred in this estimate except
the representatives of the AEC and
the FBI, who abstained on the
grounds that the subject was outside their
jurisdiction.

Source: Department of State, Conference Files: Lot 65
D 366, CF 1833. Secret. Drafted by Swihart. A notation on the source
text indicates it was uncleared. The meeting was held at the White
House. According to Kennedy’s
Appointment Book, those present for this portion of the discussion,
which took place between 4:30 and 6:10 p.m. were Kennedy, Rusk, Stevenson, Bruce, Cleveland, Steeves, Kohler, and Bohlen, and on the British side, Macmillan, Home, Caccia, Permanent Under Secretary
of Foreign Affairs Sir Frederick Hoyer Millar, Representative to the
United Nations Sir Patrick
Dean, Cabinet Secretary Sir Norman Brook, and
Macmillan’s private
secretary Philip de Zulueta. (Kennedy Library, President’s Appointment Books)
Macmillan visited
Washington April 4-8; see vol. XIII, pp. 1035-1039.

Source:
Department of State, Presidential Correspondence: Lot 66 D 204,
Kennedy/Johnson Correspondence
with Chinese Officials. Confidential. Limit Distribution. The letter
was pouched to Taipei on April 24. It was drafted in the Office of
Chinese Affairs, except the last sentence which was added in the
White House, and was sent to the White House with a covering
memorandum of April 14 from Rusk stating that it had been drafted to take
advantage of the occasion to reassure Chiang of
U.S. support. (Ibid., Central Files, 303/4-1461)

Source: Kennedy
Library, National Security Files, Countries Series, China. Secret.
Drafted by Cleveland. A note
on the source text indicates it was not cleared by the President or
the Secretary. The time of the meeting is from Kennedy’s Appointment Book.
(Kennedy Library) The
meeting was held at the White House.

Source: Department of State, Central Files,
303/5-2661. Secret. No drafter is indicated on the source text but
an attached covering memorandum of May 25 from Cleveland to Rusk indicates that it was drafted
in the Bureau of International Organizational Affairs. A handwritten
note on the source text states that the original was returned to the
Secretary and sent at his request to Deputy Under Secretary
Johnson on May
29.

Source:
Department of State, S/P Files: Lot
67 D 548, China. Top Secret. Concurred in by McConaughy. Filed with a June 29
covering memorandum from Rusk’s Special Assist-ant Emory C. Swank noting that
Rusk had approved the
first of the recommendations but had taken no action on
recommendations 2, 3, and 4. A handwritten note on Swank’s
memorandum reads in part: “I spoke to McConaughy, Alex
Johnson & Swank. All agreed that the Secretary
probably withheld action on 2, 3, & 4 because of current
delicate situation.”